<description>&lt;p&gt;Kath tells Pat about Pageturner Press and Media, one of many fraudulent "author services" companies based in the Philippines and targeting self published authors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of the info in this episode comes from the July 2025 Bloomberg article by Brent Crane titled "Pageturner's 44 million dollar fraud casts a spotlight on author services". &lt;a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-08/pageturner-s-44-million-fraud-charges-cast-spotlight-on-author-services" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"&gt;You can read it here. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Kath tells Pat about Pageturner Press and Media, one of many fraudulent "author services" companies based in the Philippines and targeting self published authors. Most of the info in this episode comes from the July 2025 Bloomberg article by Brent Crane titled "Pageturner's 44 million dollar fraud casts a spotlight on author services". <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-08/pageturner-s-44-million-fraud-charges-cast-spotlight-on-author-services" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">You can read it here. </a>

Pageturner Press and the World of "Author Services"

<description>&lt;p&gt;Kath and Pat discuss &amp;quot;Chatfishing&amp;quot;, the name The Guardian has coined for people who use Chat GPT to help with (deceive?) their matches on dating apps. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The information in this episode comes from the Guardian article on Chatfishing, by Alexandra Jones, which you can read here: &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"&gt;https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Kath and Pat discuss &quot;Chatfishing&quot;, the name The Guardian has coined for people who use Chat GPT to help with (deceive?) their matches on dating apps. The information in this episode comes from the Guardian article on Chatfishing, by Alexandra Jones, which you can read here: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps</a>

"Chatfishing": Chat GPT use on dating apps

<description>&lt;p&gt;Pat tells Kath about the pseudoscientific history of the IQ test, and how eugenicists used the idea of innate genius to justify their racist aims. &lt;/p&gt;
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Pat tells Kath about the pseudoscientific history of the IQ test, and how eugenicists used the idea of innate genius to justify their racist aims.

The Secret History of IQ 

<description>&lt;p&gt;Kath tells Pat about a political corruption story from a simpler time: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich follows in a long line of Illinois politicians in his efforts to enrich himself off the spoils of his political office, including his ability to appoint Obama&amp;#39;s successor in the senate. &lt;/p&gt;
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Kath tells Pat about a political corruption story from a simpler time: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich follows in a long line of Illinois politicians in his efforts to enrich himself off the spoils of his political office, including his ability to appoint Obama&#39;s successor in the senate.

Rod Blagojevich

<description>&lt;p&gt;Pat tells Kath about the strange life of Robert F. Kennedy Jr - chronicling his bizarre childhood, his years as a functioning drug addict practicing environmental law, and finally his descent into vaccine skepticism and his ascent to the top of Trump&amp;#39;s DHS.&lt;/p&gt;
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Pat tells Kath about the strange life of Robert F. Kennedy Jr - chronicling his bizarre childhood, his years as a functioning drug addict practicing environmental law, and finally his descent into vaccine skepticism and his ascent to the top of Trump&#39;s DHS.

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